Registration OPEN for Diane Culhane’s Remake of “Between Speech & Silence.”

 

Between Speech & Silence*
A 2-week class with Diane Culhane
4 lessons • $65
Class Dates: November 14-23, 2016

*NOTE: This class contains the same content as the original “Between Speech & Silence,” but has been re-filmed and updated.

Paul Klee described his art work as “taking a line for a walk.” Discover how to walk and run with line, shape, and color. The space “Between Speech and Silence” is the place of your inner knowing that expresses your creative voice. We will strive to access that special place and trust the creative impulses we find there.

Projects include step-by-step methods that will build skills, starting with line and collage and moving into acrylic paints. We will create three drawings, one large collage and two paintings using paper and wood boards. These four lessons are simple and complex at the same time, and the concepts can be used again and again in your creative path.

This class will feed you, fill you up, and leave you longing for more.

Class Outline

Lesson 1: “Taking a Line for a Walk”
Create three line drawings on craft/colored paper, adding color with colored pencils and finishing touches.

Lesson 2: Line & Collage
Create a collage with the first layer placed together like a puzzle on cardboard and a thick black line and covering spaces with gesso.

Lesson 3: Acrylic Paint & Collage — Start Two Paintings
Begin two paintings with a foundational color field on two boards approx. 9″x 12″ laying out the composition with mixing cool colors and warm colors. Using the image of a tree, we will mix colors for the trunk and add collage papers for the leaves.

Lesson 4:  Finish Your Paintings
Finish two paintings started in Lesson 3. Add and mix layers of color, looking at value. Explore line with a script brush, adding details and figures to complete the visual story.

SUPPLIES NEEDED FOR THIS CLASS: For the Supply List, click HERE.

For details and to sign up, click HERE!
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Three Things!

1. Intro to Encaustic Painting – Repeat class begins Tuesday, October 18th! With 12 lessons over 4 weeks, this is a great class for anyone who would like to paint with wax. (Above is a little tester I tried out at instructor Stephanie Hargrave’s studio awhile back… wax is so totally fun to work with!) Please join us (and if you have previously purchased “Intro to Encaustic Painting,” you can join the live class at no additional cost).

2. You might remember that I recently took a wonderful painting workshop with Emily Ball. Emily and a team of tutors teach super enticing in-person workshops at the Seawhite Studio in West Sussex, UK.

And you can WIN a class! Emily writes, “Who is your favourite Mixed Media artist? Tell us and you could be in with a chance of winning a place on Paper and Fabric, a 2 day short course at the Seawhite Studio, taking place on 27-28 February 2017 and tutored by the brilliant Helen Turner.”

HERE is the Facebook link where you can enter to win… hurray, I think there is only a few days left!

3. Finally, I wanted to share that artist Katherine Dunn (a wonderful illustrator and storyteller) has a new kickstarter project that looks wonderful. Katherine writes:

“Itty Bitty & Big Etta” is a love story, and a tale of acceptance, starring a 1# kitten…with wings. She reminds us all that no matter the consequences, we must be true to our core and spirit. What a great role model she is for all of us, no mater what our age. Fully illustrated by Katherine Dunn of Apifera Farm [author of three other books], you can see an animated video about the book at the  Kickstarter campaign page which is now underway at http://kck.st/2dBkAFF

I ordered a copy and can’t wait to receive mine!

Two NEW Classes with Dar Hosta James!

Paper Love: Two Classes!

Hand-Painted Paper
1-Week Class
3 Lessons; $35
Class Dates: November 1-4, 2016

Cut Paper Collage
2-Week Class
6 Lessons; $85
Class Dates: November 8-18, 2016

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Class #1: Hand-Painted Paper

Create a rainbow of your very own hand-painted papers! Join collage artist Dar Hosta James for a playful exploration of color, pattern and texture using a variety of techniques to produce beautiful, decorative papers that can be used in cut-paper collage as well as other projects that call for special, decorative paper. We will experiment with layers of paint using found objects, spattering, dripping and more as we work in color families. You will paint on Yasutomo Kozo paper and finish with a collection of at least 20 sheets of gorgeous—and very personal— pieces of hand-painted paper, as well as a toolbox full of paper-painting techniques to mix and match.

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Class #2: Cut Paper Collage

Shapes, shapes, shapes! The whole world is made up of simple but beautiful shapes! In this six-lesson course, participants will use their personal stash of collage papers (or, for those of those who took “Hand-Painted Paper,” their newly finished collection) to create a variety of playful collage compositions including buildings and architecture, floral, botanical, insect and animal. Learn Dar’s favorite and unexpected adhesive technique, which allows you to bring detail and delicacy into your cut paper work, as well as her final, detail technique which will literally “light up” your collage!

Go to the website for more details! Click HERE.

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Some samples!

The first class begins November 1st… I hope you can Join us!

Kid’s Art is the Best, Best, Best!

Last weekend my grandson Liam drew an elephant in my sketchbook with a black marker.

Yesterday (with his permission) I re-created it 16 times.

Kid’s art is the best!